My AUTODESK - ARTIST IN RESIDENCY at INSTRUCTABLES

Introduction: My AUTODESK - ARTIST IN RESIDENCY at INSTRUCTABLES

About: Hi to all! I create technological couture; with a background in fashion design combined with engineering, science and interaction design, I create systems around the body that tend towards artificial intelli...
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How has your artist residency at Autodesk been going? What is your favorite part?

As an invited artist in residency at Autodesk, I have a grasp on both incredible software and pre-released features within an amazing production facility. My favorite parts is that it feels like a big candy store where you can develop whatever you always wanted to create but never had the time, tools, or programs for. Inventions and work methods that we develop over a short amount of time will stay with us forever.

And yes - it has been AMAZING, AMAZING amounts of experiments, AMAZING amounts of people, AMAZING tools, an AMAZING workshop, at one of the BEST locations that San Francisco has to offer: at the Embarcadero // Pier in San Francisco, overlooking the Bay Bridge!

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Step 1: WHAT DID I DO? // 3D Printing Experiments

I took this opportunity do a lot of 3D printing on Objet 3D Printers (Model 500 Connex) - high quality machines that you normally not that often have an direct access to. Gabe Patin was of great help here - learning us the base of machine usage and helping us out to figure out everything that is needed to run, operate and service one of these 7 babies. Sometimes I had 3 or more of them running at night, to wake up in the morning with happy results and/or failure to be learned from;

Step 2: WHAT DID I DO? // Owning the DESK

REALLY IMPORTANT is to take be territorial and take FULL ownership of your desk.

I did this by radical placing images and drawings of one of my hero's: German philosopher, professor, physician, naturalist, biologist and artist Ernst Haeckel (February 16, 1834 – August 9, 1919) to who's 2D drawings I like to reference into 3D a lot.

OWNING YOUR DESK is a REALLY important part of your residency!

For real.

Step 3: WHAT DID I DO? // Learned New Machinery

I tried machinery that I have never used, and never would think of using that quickly within my discipline, but still did try - because it's FUN to see what possibilities arise if you DO d the things that you would never expected to! For example, these are some of the machines I never thought of using, that I actually did create pieces on the body with!

Step 4: WHAT DID I DO? // Got Totally OVERWHELMED + Made a PLAN

Like most artists in residency at AutoDesk, after the second week you are TOTALLY overwhelmed by all taken CLASSES, awesome WORKSHOPS, holy-shit MACHINERY, and nop notch AUTODESK CREW who is amazingly helpful with pushing you even further out of reality. This is the point that you scrape yourself together and think WHAT AM I EXACTLY DOING?.... And you make your plan.

Step 5: WHAT DID I DO? // Got INSPIRED and MOTIVATED [EVENTS]

Go to GABE'S CAD NIGHTS every Tuesday from 19.00 on at AutoDesk Pier 9 (Instructables area, above) to learn new programs, as Gabe curate's this event weekly in order to have acces to learning coding, 3D modelling, scanning, amongst other skill sets and program / software reviews.

Go to DESIGN NIGHTS at AUTODESK GALLERY [one market]on every FIRST THURSDAY of every month (alike Explratorium)

Step 6: WHAT DID I DO? // TREMENDRESS TUESDAY

Very hard, normally being alone in your studio, or hacking away in your hotel room, now having the access to a lot of FUN PEOPLE, that especially were even more CRAZY during Pier 9's TREMENDRESS TUESDAYS!

This event is every FIRST TUESDAY of the month,and contains dress-ups, glitter, chalk markers and LOVE.

Step 7: WHAT DID I DO? // Nightcrawling

At night, you have the Pier 9 facilities to yourself. You. The Facilities. Alone. In the dark. Until you turn on the lights and turn the place into anything you can imagine...

With the right permissions, you can watch your prints articulate - you can punch away at a masterpiece with the moonlight crawling across the bay and the bridge and through the massive windows and onto your work. You can turn Pier 9 into anything you want. And if you’re as lucky as me, you will spend at least one night sheathing the woodshop in plastic wrap and preparing to test a piece of 3D printed second skin that leaks ink...

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